In 2017, Donald Trump declared war on the media by tweeting that he views all major news networks, aside from Fox, as “the enemy of the American People.” In response, “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace broke one of The Donald’s 10 Commandments of Media Coverage: Thou shalt not say that Barack Obama did something better than him. “Barack Obama whined about Fox News all the time, but I got to say, he never said that we were an enemy of the people,” Chris said to Trump’s chief of staff at the time, Reince Priebus.
Chris became one of the few Fox News hosts that Trump periodically complained about on X. In response to a “Fox News Sunday” segment that was critical of the Trump administration’s slow response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump compared Chris unfavorably to his late father, “60 Minutes” host Mike Wallace. “Just watched Mike Wallace wannabe, Chris Wallace, on @FoxNews. I am now convinced that he is even worse than Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd of ‘Meet the Press’ (please!), or the people over at Deface the Nation,” he tweeted in April 2020.
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In addition to taking issue with his reporting, Trump seemed to harbor a grudge with the host over what he viewed as unfair treatment during the 2020 presidential debate Chris Wallace moderated. In one tweet that referenced the debate that November, Trump wrote, “His show is a total ‘hit job’ on your favorite President, me!”
